power outage

The AC use likely strained wires and made them catch fire, Con Ed said.

The outages began on Monday afternoon and 127 customers were still out on Tuesday afternoon.

Residents were unable to return home until this morning. 

Salt water corroding underground wires sparked the widespread outages, ConEd said.

The fire caused 309 homes in New Springville to lose power Tuesday morning, Con Ed said.

Power outage in Rochdale Village stranded 52 people in elevators and on scaffolding, authorities say.

The power went out around noon Friday at P.S. 138 in Brooklyn and surrounding areas, ConEd said.

Workers doing repairs to a power supply at the Intrepid received burns, officials said.

An Amtrak power outage stalled their own trains and New Jersey Transit lines, officials said.

Due to "temporary power loss" systemwide, all subways were briefly running with delays, the MTA said.

A power outage Tuesday forced New York Harbor School to temporarily relocate to Stuyvesant High School.

Salt and snow corroded underground cables, leaving the neighborhoods with reduced capacity, Con Ed said.

Trains were delayed up to two hours Thursday night after workers mistakenly caused a power outage.

The New Springville crash stopped traffic and cut power to nearly 1,000 people for several hours.

The Northeast Corridor has had delays since Wednesday after an electrical problem.